Admin Are you stuck at home while COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic? there are lot of android apps to do group video calls with your friends and relations. Also, this apps will help you with work-from-home policies to use as video conferencing apps. With the evolution technology we now have lot of high-speed video calling apps unlike in the past when video calling was mostly laggy.
Google Duo
Generally speaking, Duo is Google’s FaceTime. Its complete free and works both iOS and Android devices. Unlike FaceTime, it is only working in iOS devices. You can video call any buddy of you via Google Duo. It is also able to work in Google Chrome in laptop and desktop computers.
Google Duo is developed to be fast and reliable. It adjusts its video quality and everything according to quality of your internet connection. It always tries to stay connected even in a low bandwidth connection. And all calls in Google Duo is end-to-end encrypted.
One of Duo’s unique feature is knock knock. It gives you a preview of person who are calling before you answer the call. When you are starting the call, it will say that your video is visible. That means knock knock is enabled. And if you don’t like knock knock you can disable it in settings. You can disable it in person to person too.
Duo has very simple user interface. You have icon to start video call next to contact list. And there are no subscriptions. You can just sign up using your google account and start calling people in your contact list. When you’re in a call, you have icons to switch camera, mute audio and hang up the call.
Group calling recently added to Google Duo. It allows up to 11 people to join in a group call. It is best video calling app for android in the play store.
Skype
Skype is the one of oldest video calling apps out there. We are using this for long time ago now, even when there are no smart phones. There is official skype android app for almost every platform including Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry and so on. There is also Skype lite app for low end mobile phones.
In Skype you can get together with up to 24 members in one HD video call. Also, you can use Skype for send messages, photos and get voice calls too. And you can use emoticons, or you can use Giphy to send GIFs and have fun while conversations. Skype is one of best video calling app for android out there.
Messenger
Messenger is from Facebook. Its Facebook’s official messaging and calling application. if you have a Facebook account you can login to this using Facebook credentials and chat with everyone. If you don’t have Facebook account you can use your phone number to start a account and use it’s all features. (Some countries do not support this feature still)
You can use messenger for video call with up to 8 people with high quality audio and video. Also, you get fun interactive features like face filters to use while on the call.
You can send messages, phones, voice clips, videos and files also using messenger. And there is messenger lite app for low end devices or its best for slow internet connections.
WhatsApp is free messaging app without any ads. You can send and receive photos, videos, documents and voice messages. Also, there is free calls and video calls. All absolutely free. And you can create groups with your friends and have fun. Also, there is WhatsApp web feature to message using your web browser. Lot of experts are saying that it is the best messenger app all time.
WhatsApp has good video call feature as well. It works well in almost all internet connections. You can have up to 4 members for video call.
Viber
Viber is one of most popular android apps in play store. You can use Viber for voice calls, video calls, send files, photos and videos. Viber has fully synched desktop and tablet apps and you can transfer calls between them. Also, using Viber out feature, you can call to landlines for low cost around the world. Only disadvantage of Viber is you can’t have group video calls using it still.
Zoom
Zoom is different from all the apps above. Its developed for video conferences. Perfect app for the work from home. You can Host a meeting and invite up to 100 people to join it. You can screen share directly from your android device using zoom. Also, you can share photos from google drive, dropbox or Box files.
In its free version, group meetings limited to only 40 minutes. Its pro package is only USD15 per month and it offers you 24 hours per one meeting.
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